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Announcing the Quantum F2100 Next-Gen NVMe Storage with the Speed and Capacity to Re-Invent Your Workflow

May 4, 2022 by Rekha Nair 0 Comments #Brian Pawlowski, #senior vice president and chief development officer for Quantum

BANGALORE, India — May 04, 2022 — Quantum® Corporation (NASDAQ: QMCO), the leader in solutions for video and unstructured data, today announced the availability of the latest generation of its award-winning F-Series portfolio with the release of the Quantum F2100 NVMe storage appliance. The new system provides faster performance and more NVMe storage capacity than previous generations so media and entertainment organizations and corporate video teams can leverage the speed and parallel processing power of NVMe to speed up production workflows, rendering, and video and image processing. The F2100 ships with the latest Quantum block storage software, which introduces a unified user experience across F-Series NVMe storage and H-Series SSD/HDD storage, with many new features to give customers more flexible configuration options and better reporting and monitoring. The F2100 is fully integrated with Quantum Cloud-Based Analytics (CBA) software for proactive system monitoring, and Quantum customers can now access all of these customer applications using the MyQuantum service delivery platform that was recently announced.

“The Quantum F2100 builds on what we introduced a few years ago with our award-winning F-Series platform, now used in many of the world’s leading video production environments for high-speed video and image processing, rendering, and advanced AR/VR development,” says Brian Pawlowski, senior vice president and chief development officer for Quantum. “The F2100 ships with the latest Quantum block storage software, which is now common across F-Series and H-Series product lines. This means we can deliver features and fixes faster, and also represents a key step toward delivering a truly unified user experience across Quantum StorNext, F-Series, H-Series, and our CBA software.”

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This leap in performance and capacity – offering up to 50GB/s for multi-client reads, paired with the ability to offer up to 737TB of raw NVMe storage in a single system — will let Quantum’s customers re-architect their workflows in highly demanding media, special effects, life sciences and AI/ML applications. A single system can now easily meet what would have previously required many racks of spinning disk storage systems to achieve. Customers can also use the Quantum StorNext 7 file system pools feature to create drive volumes composed of the F2100 and spinning disk volumes to fine-tune their workflow storage for performance, capacity, and cost, all under a single StorNext 7 namespace.

The new Quantum F2100 NVMe storage appliance features include:

· Dual-controller architecture on 2U, 24 drive system driven by Quantum’s unified Block Storage platform 2.0

· Benchmarked multi-client read performance of up to 55GB/s and write performance of 20GB/s*

· Choice of drive sizes in 24 drive arrays including 15.36TB, 7.68TB, and 3.84 TB for a maximum raw storage capacity of 737.28TB in only 2U

· Pre-configured RAID 6 volumes for faster deployment

· Connectivity choice of 8 ports of 100Gb/s Ethernet or 16 ports of 32Gb Fibre Channel

· Integration with Quantum CBA software for proactive system monitoring

· And many more new features and enhancements

* Performance numbers as measured on pre-release Quantum F2100 systems using video fa4k uncompressed unconstrained stream benchmark runs with 6 simultaneous client writes

The Quantum F2100 NVMe storage appliance is available to order immediately from Quantum Value Added Resellers worldwide and will be showcased at the NAB Show in Las Vegas April 23-27 in booths N4109 and N4106. For more information, visit www.quantum.com.

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Quantum Stornext Sets New Performance Records For Video Workloads

Mar 8, 2021 by Rekha Nair 0 Comments #Brian Pawlowski, #Chief Development Officer, #Eric Burgener, #IDC., #Infrastructure Systems, #Platforms and Technologies Group, #Quantum, #Research Vice President

Bangalore, India — Quantum Corporation announces that its StorNext® File System is the fastest file system for video workloads. In testing using the independent SPEC SFS 2014 benchmark, the StorNext 7 system outperformed all other file systems across all three-performance metrics, using a reference architecture with 57% fewer storage nodes than the next nearest vendor and at a much lower cost per concurrent stream. These results demonstrate that StorNext provides the best performance and best value for any workload that requires massive streaming performance with a large number of concurrent users or processes.

Video Surveillance Capture

Use cases in media and entertainment, video surveillance capture and retention, and earth and life sciences with large digital image files can all benefit from the streaming performance and data lifecycle management of the StorNext system. The SPEC SFS 2014 SP2 Video Data Application (VDA) test, which is designed to simulate a high-performance video-based workload at scale, was conducted on the StorNext File System and Quantum F-Series NVMe storage servers.

The Quantum StorNext system set new performance records for:

• The highest aggregate throughput (34,391 MB/sec)
• The lowest latency (0.9 milliseconds overall response time)
• The highest number of concurrent streams (7,450 streams)
The charts below show how Quantum outperformed its competitors across the three metrics.Quantum Stornext Sets New Performance Records For Video Workloads

Performance Storage System

“Video creation is growing exponentially across all industries — whether for entertainment, marketing, communications, training or surveillance — and customers require extremely high-performance storage systems to ingest and process their video content,” said Brian Pawlowski, Chief Development Officer, Quantum. “These test results clearly demonstrate that StorNext is the fastest file system on the planet for video workloads. And thanks to the architecture of the StorNext File System, it achieved these record-breaking results with substantially less hardware than the nearest competitor.”

“The record-setting results in this SPEC SFS testing validate the StorNext system’s performance leadership for video and other large file workloads,” said Eric Burgener, Research Vice President, Infrastructure Systems, Platforms and Technologies Group, IDC. “And since explosive growth of this type of data is occurring across many industries, StorNext is well positioned to help enterprises ingest, process, and manage this type of data across its lifecycle.”

Endorsing Standardized Benchmarks

The reference architecture uses generally available products, configured as a single StorNext 7 File System running on Quantum Xcellis ® appliances, with 10 Quantum F-Series NVMe storage servers. The StorNext File System was connected to clients via iSER (iSCSI Extensions for RDMA) over a 100GbE dual network, with an additional 1GbE network for metadata and administration. Full details of the architecture used are publicly available on the SPEC website.

The Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) is a non-profit corporation formed to establish, maintain, and endorse standardized benchmarks and tools to evaluate performance and energy efficiency for the newest generation of computing systems. SPEC develops benchmark suites and also reviews and publishes submitted results from its member organizations and other benchmark licensees.